Multitalented Viterbi Researcher Named ASA Fellow

Linguist/Engineer Honored for Many Contributions to Speech Imaging

Professor Shrikanth Narayanan, who holds appointments in the USC
Viterbi School departments of electrical engineering and computer
science, as well as in the College department of linguistics, is one of
a small group of investigators who won the title of Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America this year.

His commendation cites his contributions in speech production and
imaging. He will be officially honored at the ASA's annual
plenary session in Spring, 2006, in Providence, Rhode Island.

"Shri does outstanding research in speech processing
technology, spoken language science and multimedia integration of these
fields," said Alexander Sawchuk, chair of the Viterbi School's
electrical eningeering-systems department, and director of the Signal
and Image Processing Instititue (SIPI), of which Narayanan is a
part, "Our department joins me in congratulating him on this
recognition."

A lengthening page of media stories
chronicles the youthful investigator's efforts in such fields as
voice-to-voice speech translation, laughter analysis and production,
tailoring speech recognition and production to children for educational
toys, and answering system devices that detect irritation in callers
voices.

Organized 1929, the ASA now has a membership of nearly 7,000
men and women who work in acoustics throughout the U.S. and abroad.